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Love a bargain
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Ooooh I love a good buy! As its pouring down outside I've been flicking through last months GW Mag and have bought a runner bean stand. Used the discountcode and it came in at £24 instead of £29. Chuffed! Saw the same one on eBay for £34 so think I've got a good buy.
I normally use canes but they tend to wobble about as I'm not strong enough to get them deep enough in the ground to be secure. I was tempted to get some willow a chap was selling by the road but too long to fit in my car.
Hope this solves that problem. Now off to find a wood yard that's open to build a bed while the ground is nice and soft. Yippeee!
Note to self: must not go to the wood yard via the garden centre!!
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Thanks Lorna95. Have just sown some nice plump runner bean seeds in pots in the greenhouse. Can't wait!!
How will you fix that to the ground?
I was about to ask the same question. Unless there are long rods to push into the ground it will much less resistant to winds than a can structure.
I'm going to partly bury it in a slightly raised bed and I've got some metal rods with flat tops that are made so that they can be hammered in. Guess I could always use bricks on the ends though.
Hope you get a good lot of runner beans growing on there Tootles.
That looks like a great bargain. Last year I used a willow wigwam, which was an anniversary pressy, everyone laughed including the friends who gave it to us, said how was I going to pick the beans, well, none grow on the inside, it looked lovelly, and they were easy to pick, so there!!!! What page was it on Tootles?
We got a bargain today - driving back from visiting Ma we passed a house with a sign
Free Horse Manure - we filled the car boot with six bags full of pony poo and now they're stacked in the garden - when we empty the compost bins they'll be added bit by bit to the new heap - marvellous!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well that will do the garden some good Dove and best of all it's FREE.